Improvement in bale-ties



I. A. KILMBR. Bale-Tie.

No. 201,019. Patented March 5, 1878.

INVENTOR f-'Z ATTORNEYS.

'UNITED S'rA'rEs PATENT OFFICE.

IRVING A. KILMER, OF HOWE7S OAVE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF HISRIGHT TO AUGUSTUS KILMER, OF SAME PLACE.

IM PROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,019, (lated March5, 1878; application filed February 16, 1878.

To all 'whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, IRVING A. KILMER, of Howeis Cave, in the county ofSchoharie and State of New York, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operationof the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partof this specification, and to the letters and figures of referencemarked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of mybale-tie 5 and Figs. 2 and 3, modification perspective views of mybale-tie.

My invention relates to bale-ties formed by twisting and bending theends of the wires used for tying the bales; and the nature of myinvention consists in the construction and arrangement of the tie, aswill be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents a Wire, such as is used for tying a bale of cotton or othermaterial. One end of the Wire A is bent and twisted substantially asshown, so as to form a ring or eye, B.

The other end of the wire is bent in the following mauner: An eye, C, isfirst formed by bending the Wire a suitable distance from the end. Theend of the Wire from the eye Cis then bent to lthe left, and thencrossed over to the right back again, and on the end is formed a catch,D, which is pressed in the eye O, the bent portion outside of said eyeforming the figure 8, and is marked F.

Instead of crossing the wires in this manner, they may be run side byside without crossing, the catch D in either case being passed throughthe eye O.

When the Wire is passed around the bale the ring Bis passed over thepart F, eye G, and catch D, and said ring is caught under the eye, asshown, the part F extending across and beyond the ring B.

The end of the catch D may extend back- Ward, if desired, for a suitabledistance, and then the ring B catches under the end thereof.

I am fully aware that it is not new to form a bale-tie with or on thesame wire which surrounds the bale, and I do, therefore, not claim such,broadly, as my invention.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The wire A, bent and twisted at one end to form the eye B, and the otherend bent to form the eye O, double part F, and catch D, substantially asherein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

. IRVING A. KILMER.

Witnesses:

JOHN F. SHAFER, DAVID H. RlcKARD.

